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“Skinny Bones Productions is Kickstarting a fabulously funny mini-series about the adventures of two hostage negotiators,” a post on Joby’s Facebook page announced to their fans this week.

Joby, the maker of the popular GorillaPod, a line of flexible tripods for cameras and smartphones, found their way to Skinny Bones Productions' “BLAMBLAMBLAM, ClickClickClick” Kickstarter campaign (http://kck.st/GXyavD) through the production company's most recent video short.

The video introduced two new pledge reward levels to the BBBCCC Kickstarter, the first being a BBBCCC temporary tattoo (or temporary tramp stamp, depending on proximity to the lower back). The second pledge reward gives the chance for a company to have their product featured in an episode of the web series. Joby’s GorillaMobile was used in a tongue-in-cheek example of the latter pledge reward.

Rather than sending a cease and desist, Joby's response was an excited Facebook comment to the video, “Awesome! We were laughing out loud! We’ve shared your projects with our fans!” They did so by way of an equally excited Facebook post and Tweet.

Joby’s energetic praise of the BBBCCC Kickstarter has been one of many endorsements in the short span of the campaign. Late last week, the BBBCCC Kickstarter was pulled from the masses of other series seeking funding, and became a “Web Series Staff Pick” on the Kickstarter site.

The BBBCCC Kickstarter has been finding fans attracted to it by Skinny Bones Productions’ brand of off-beat humor, brought to life by a cast and crew who turn out high-quality work in the middle of a blink of an eye (between the left eye starting to open, and the right not quite fully closed).